Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr at CAPCON on February 1, 2023

During his second stint as U.S. attorney general — Bill Barr served under the late President George H.W. Bush in the early 1990s and under President Donald Trump in 2019 and 2020 — one of the cases he dealt with was the one against billionaire financier and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. After Epstein was found dead in his cell in a federal detention center in Manhattan on August 10, 2019, Barr vowed to lead an investigation into his death.

This Monday, August 18, Barr is, according to CBS News, scheduled to meet with members of the House Oversight Committee during a closed-door session and answer questions about the Epstein investigation.

In an article published on August 18, CBS News reporters Dan Ruetenik, Graham Kates and Cara Tabachnick explain, "Among the first to arrive at the Metropolitan Correctional Center soon after Epstein's death in August 2019 were members of Barr's senior staff. The visit to the federal detention center by senior members of the attorney general's staff was highly unusual, a source who was there at the time and witnessed the visit told CBS News. But so was the death in custody of such a controversial figure."

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) also sent subpoenas to former President Bill Clinton and ex-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (who served under former President Barack Obama).

The CBS News reporters note that Barr's meeting with the House Oversight Committee "comes as Epstein's 2019 death in federal custody has come under renewed, intense public and governmental scrutiny."

"The release last month of what the Justice Department called 'raw' surveillance video from near Epstein's cell block, rather than settling questions about the night he died, raised new ones," Ruetenik, Kates and Tabachnick report. "The analysis by CBS News flagged multiple inconsistencies between the video and the 2023 report released by the Justice Department's Inspector General on Epstein's death. As Congress steps up its inquiry, Barr is the first person scheduled to be deposed by the committee."

The journalists add, "Barr has acknowledged what he called 'perfect storm of screw-ups' at the jail, but said his 'personal review' of surveillance footage supported the conclusion that Epstein had died by suicide."

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Read the full CBS News article at this link.